HP 12500 Switch Series

The SDN-enabled HP 12500 Switch Series offers industry leading scalability for enterprise data center cores giving you significantly higher throughput with 24.3 Tbps switching capacity. Along with scalability you get high performance 10/40/100GbE line cards.

With high scalability and performance, the new core switch series extends the value of your installed base and also delivers high availability and resilience with redundant fabrics, power supplies and fan trays. Customers will find great value in Comware 7 advanced features, including IRF, MDC, SPB and EVI.

What's new

The HP 12518E Switch and the HP 12508E Switch provides customers with investment protection and extend the value of their 12500 installed base.

Enhanced MDC and IRF capabilities together with SPB, EVI and OpenFlow 1.3.

Support for DCB/FCoE features for building converged networks.

Features

Industry Leading Large Scalability for Enterprise Data Center Cores

The HP 12500 Switch Series provides 24.3 Tbps switching capacity by leveraging the latest generation ASICs for outstanding performance and density connectivity to keep you ahead of your competition.

Enhanced Multitenant Device Context (MDC) for multi-tenancy giving you the ability to virtualize a physical switch into multiple logical devices; each logical switch has its own tenants.

Ethernet Virtual Interconnect for (EVI) is a virtual application network solution that provides a Layer2 extension across the data center to simplify the interconnectivity of geographically dispersed data centers.

Enterprise Resiliency and High Availability

Hot-swappable and redundant fans and power supplies increase the reliability of the switch while lowering data center energy costs.

Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) creates virtual resilient switching fabrics where two or more switches perform as a single Layer2 switch and Layer3 router that can be attached using standard LACP for automatic load balancing and high availability.

Software-defined Networking (SDN) support helps you unleash new levels of automation and efficiency in data center networks.

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